# health insight (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover health insight. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Donor Dollar is not A Domestic Dollar](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/a-donor-dollar-is-not-a-domestic) _2026-08-07 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ Why the same amount of money may not buy the same health service ## [Contracting Out Health Services: The PFM Blind Spot Governments Can No Longer Ignore](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/contracting-out-health-services-the) _2026-07-25 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ As governments increasingly rely on NGOs, private providers and autonomous entities, public financial management must move beyond tracking payments to understanding what the state is actually buying. ## [What Gets Classified Gets Seen](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/what-gets-classified-gets-seen) _2026-04-18 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ How the way health spending is coded shapes what systems understand, prioritise, and ultimately deliver ## [The Worker is Present but the Function Is Not](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/the-worker-is-present-but-the-function) _2026-03-18 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ A practitioner's account of what transition plans measure and what they miss - field notes ## [Fiscal Space Is Not New Money](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/fiscal-space-is-not-new-money) _2026-02-12 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ Why health financing depends more on reprioritisation than expansion ## [The Missing Link in Fiscal Space](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/the-missing-link-in-fiscal-space) _2026-01-25 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ How Political Authorisation Turns Affordability into Spending ## [The Fiscal Behaviour Index](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/the-fiscal-behaviour-index) _2025-12-20 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ Why public spending fails not because of rules, but because of behaviour ## [The Donor Dilemma: When Exit Strategies Become the Weakest Link](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/the-donor-dilemma-when-exit-strategies) _2025-10-28 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ Rethinking sustainability through readiness, risk, and system confidence ## [Islands of Progress, Oceans of Gaps](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/islands-of-progress-oceans-of-gaps) _2025-09-12 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ Reimagining Financing to Deliver Universal Health Coverage Across the Continuum of Care ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uQOLwzBcB0g3) _2025-09-12 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Making Sense of Budget Reform: From Labels to Levers](https://fiscalhealthinsights.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-budget-reform-from) _2025-08-31 · Afeef Mahmood · Fiscal Health Insights_ How sector plans, MTBF, OBB, and PBB can be sequenced to deliver real change: Part 2 of a Two Part Series